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Keeping Rock County’s private well water safe to drink will be the focus next year under the state’s Targeted Township Nitrogen Testing Program.
Private well owners in seven Rock County townships can voluntarily have their wells analyzed for nitrate levels in a joint effort by the Minnesota...
Luverne City Council members put the wheels in motion at their Oct. 13 meeting to condemn a residential property for eventual acquisition by eminent domain.
The large yellow house at the corner of Highway 75 and Lincoln Street has been in disrepair for years, and city building inspector Chad...
Designers and work crews have completed the flag park on the southeastern corner of Main Street and Highway 75.
The $35,000 project features four flagpoles — for an American flag, Minnesota flag, POW-MIA flag and a Luverne flag.
The Highway 75 edge of the park has a grass berm along the west edge,...
Twenty-six residents of the Luverne area returned Friday from the prestigious Blandin Community Leadership Program, an intense five-day training at Sugar Lake Lodge, Grand Rapids.
Local residents participating in this training were Johnna Ahrendt, Mike Davis, Mike DeJong, Lisa Dinger, Judy Fenske,...
Luverne school officials will conduct another survey to decide whether or not to continue starting school before Labor Day.
This time, however, instead of an online poll, the board plans to conduct a simpler paper survey during parent-teacher conferences in late October and early November.
At the...
Luverne’s Blue Mound Tower received a minor facelift last week when workers power-washed the building’s skylights.
Workers from Bargen Inc. of Mountain Lake spent Tuesday, Sept. 27, ridding the flat rooftop skylights of several years of dirt and grime.
“They’re still discolored,” said Executive...
A Luverne High School graduate is training for the physically demanding “Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge,” a 90-day, 3,000-mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean starting in December.
Caitlin Miller, Hardwick, and her race partner, George Pagano, Philadelphia, recently returned from the UK...
How water moves around and through the Rock County Demolition Debris Landfill will receive an in-depth look as required by the state’s permit renewal process.
County commissioners recently hired Melanie Niday, a hydrogeologist with Short Elliot Henderson Inc., St. Cloud, for $13,450.
Niday will...